Smelting and refining in MineFantasy includes a small amount of processes. Rather than just tossing material in a box and waiting, there's more processing, maintaining and building required. Smelting is pretty straight forward and is used for most material, alloying and refining are further processes.

SMELTING

Smelting is pretty similar to what you're used to with a few changes. First of all: The regular stone furnace is disabled- no real work in that thing is there. When it comes to smelting; furnaces are expensive pieces of machinery. Before that is the bloomery.

Bloomery

The Bloomery is your first furnace. It is only able to smelt ingots and cost a fair amount of coal when doing so.

Bloomeries smelt like normal furnaces: The "Hardcore bloomery" option changes this. With this option: the bloomery creates blooms, these do not stack and must be handled with tongs. The side of the bloomery indicates a ready result(the process will stop at this point). right-click tongs to pick the bloom up, transfer it to the anvil, and hit it appropriately. make sure you leave your tongs empty when forging, you will need an empty set to cool the ingot.

MineFantasy furnaces are expensive. Their multi-block structures costing upto 44 ingots each to make. However unlike what you may be used to: Furnaces are not ment to be made and placed about. These machines are large and costly, and each are valued to anyone. Each furnace can simultaneously smelt 4 items at a time, their speed is also effected by the heat of the furnace. Unlike normal furnaces: there's no proper smelts-fuel table, as it depends on temperature.

Furnaces can be powered by bellows(face the side wall of the bottom) and can share to neighbors. Hotter fuels and bellows speed the furnace up. Fuel burns regardless of if it can smelt, this means there's no easy toss'n'forget. You need to plan your smelts and fuel the furnace accordingly.

To build furnaces

To build a furnace: You need a heater, furnace, stone blocks with a certain hardness, and 4 metal blocks of the tier. Furnaces can share walls, meaning you can have as many furnace-heaters in between 2 walls. A single furnace is 3w, 2d, and 3h in size.

The furnace heater is made like so:
Place this down where you want the front,bottom to be.

The furnace itself is made like this
Place this on top of the heater (do not obstruct the face of this or the heater face).

REFINING

Blast furnaces are large multi-block structures. They are used to refine material by using carbon and flux.

Trip hammers

These are simple swinging tools. These can not forge items, but are able to work some single recipes like powders, blooms and ingots.
(This is useful with hardcore iron, attatch this to a forge output, and insert hot iron).